Breaking: Supreme Court Blocks Illinois Law Prohibiting Taping of Police

[AnotherMcIntosh]

47. Either (1) the Court did not accept a petition to be heard (#4) or (2) the Court rejected an appeal.

As explained in Wikipedia,

"In the United States, certiorari is most often seen as the writ that the Supreme Court of the United States issues to a lower court to review the lower court's judgment for legal error (reversible error) and review where no appeal is available as a matter of right. Before the Evarts Act, the cases that could reach the Supreme Court were heard as a matter of right, meaning that the Court was required to issue a decision in each of those cases. That is, the Court had to review all properly presented appeals on the merits, hear oral argument, and issue decisions. As the United States expanded in the nineteenth century, the federal judicial system became increasingly strained, with the Supreme Court having a backlog several years long. The Act solved these problems by transferring most of the court's direct appeals to the newly created Circuit Courts of Appeals, whose decisions in those cases would normally be final. The Supreme Court did not completely give up its judiciary authority, however, because it gained the ability to review the decisions of the courts of appeals at its discretion through writ of certiorari.

Since the Judiciary Act of 1925 and the Supreme Court Case Selections Act of 1988, most cases cannot be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court as a matter of right. A party who wants the Supreme Court to review a decision of a federal or state court files a "petition for writ of certiorari" in the Supreme Court. A "petition" is printed in booklet format and 40 copies are filed with the Court. If the Court grants the petition, the case is scheduled for the filing of briefs and for oral argument.

A minimum of four of the nine Justices are required to grant a writ of certiorari, referred to as the "rule of four". The court denies the vast majority of petitions and thus leaves the decision of the lower court to stand without review; it takes roughly 80 to 150 cases each term. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari

The Clerk of the Supreme Court seems to think Anita Alvarez filed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari (#12-318) and did not file an appeal. The Clerk of the Supreme Court also seems to think that the Supreme Court denied a Petition for Cert, and he reported such denial ( http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/12-318.htm )

Was the Clerk wrong?

Instead of filing a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, did the State's Attorney in Chicago do "just the opposite" and file an appeal with the result that "the court rejected an appeal"?